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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Real Americans Should Buy a Ford

Real Democrats like to boycott. The lefties love to talk about the things they do not eat, do not buy and do not visit. They do not like salt in their butter, msg in their Chinese or second party tobacco smoke. The Obama left wing machine thinks they can run a car company better than the car companies, so let them. Do not buy GM while the Democrats are running the company. Buy real American. Buy Ford.

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Industrial Policy: The U.S. government dictating a major corporation's merger partner and who its CEO should be was unimaginable a year ago. Has industry sold America's free-market soul for bailout money?

A president of the United States orders the chief executive officer of General Motors to resign. The same president is further ordering Chrysler to merge with Fiat, the Italian firm specializing in flimsy cardboard boxes on wheels.

This new reality should send a chill down the spines of all Americans. The federal government has begun to run U.S. companies.

President Obama said Monday, "my team will be working closely with GM to produce a better business plan."

To that confident assertion he added these stern sentiments:

"They must ask themselves: Have they consolidated enough unprofitable brands? Have they cleaned up their balance sheets, or are they still saddled with so much debt that they can't make future investments? Above all, have they created a credible model for how not only to survive, but to succeed in this competitive global market?"

Who is in a better position to know the answers to these questions? Rick Wagoner, the GM CEO for nine years and former GM chief financial officer who has been with the automaker since the late 1970s, even running one of its foreign affiliates in Brazil, and who holds a Harvard Business School MBA?

Or President Obama, a former community activist from the south side of Chicago with a great rhetorical gift?

The president answered that question this week by ordering Wagoner's firing.

Imagine if it were not GM, but your own small business employing a handful of people.

How would you like the country's highest-ranking elected officeholder telling you that he and "my team" know better than you about cleaning up your balance sheets and competing against your rivals? How would you like being ordered by the government to fire the person you hired as manager of your company?

Does an entity that is itself $11 trillion (and climbing) in debt have any right to criticize a private business for owing tens of billions, let alone to claim it can do better running that business?

SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil -- Silvio Illi would seem to have little to worry about as he walks the line at Ford Motor Co.'s São Bernardo plant outside São Paulo.

He manages a factory that -- even running at full capacity -- can barely keep up with demand for its cars and trucks. Better still, Ford is investing heavily in Illi's plant as it prepares to begin production of a new model.

But Illi cannot help but be concerned about what is going on half a world away in Dearborn. He knows Ford is struggling to save its North American automotive business. He knows the company has mortgaged everything to finance its turnaround plan. And while the success of a similar restructuring effort in Brazil gives him hope, Illi knows the efforts he and his team have made to revive Ford's South American business will not matter much if the plan fails in the United States. ---"I know what they are facing," Ponti said, adding that he hopes Ford's problems in North America will not force the company to close its operations in Argentina. "We worry about that here."

Nor are employees of Ford and GM the only ones concerned about the fate of U.S. automakers in South America. Dealers are also anxious to see both companies' restructuring efforts succeed. Ernesto Geraldi owns a number of automotive dealerships in São Paulo, including several Ford stores.

"It's logical to be worried," he said. "(But) I'm sure that Ford and GM are so strong, so famous, so important -- they are going to choose good plans to make the turnaround."

The Devil:I've got a neighbor with one of those.Can't come close to remembering all the exotics parked there over the years.Like to know what he does to acquire them, but afraid he's outta my league.Like Barry

Latin America's biggest economies face close to zero growth over the next five years if the developed world does not pull out of the global economic crisis during the second half of 2009, the Inter-American Development Bank warned yesterday.

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"Precarious access to credit markets for many emerging market countries calls for multilaterals to step in and play the role that governments with better access to credit, such as the US government, play domestically," it said.

The IADB's warning is the latest to say that Latin America - while better placed to withstand a crisis than a decade ago - will nevertheless be harder hit than most economists expected. "As the world's economy collapses, Latin America will find it impossible to avoid recession, and in some cases default," Capital Economics, a London research company, warned this month.

What is the basis of an argument that the US is Venezuela, doug, in the early years?

More so now than under Nixon's Wage and Hour control regimine?

Or the creation of Amtrack?

Or the creation of the Federal Reserve?

Buy Ford, buy American

Ford, which is struggling with rising costs and declining market share in the United States, said it would upgrade assembly plants in Cuautitlán and Hermosillo, Mexico, as well as its engine plant in Chihuahua.

It builds the F-Series pickup truck and Ikon small car in Cuautitlán. Engines for several vehicles sold globally are made in Chihuahua. The Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln Zephyr are built in Hermosillo.

Hannity had some quotes by the democratic candidate in this New York race today where is said he's against the death penalty even for 9/11 terrorists. Something about it being too expensive to kill 'em.

Coleman got a bad court decision today too, it was reported. A few hundred Libertarian votes would have had him in the Senate, instead of Frankenstein.

I've come to think a lot of Libertarians just like punishment. Just thrive on all that turns out badly. Somehow they seem to think it confirms their outlook on life, so they tend to enable it, and take glee when things go ill.

No, bob, he acted in concert with his employee to purchase drugs, using that employee as a cut out. That is a conspiracy to traffic in a Schedule II narcotic, which took place over an extended period of time, certainly a RICO qualifying crime.

Corrupting a loyal employee and coercing her, through wage intimidation to break the law.

The Limbaugh Gang, or should he qualify, with millions of followers, as a Cartel Crime Chief?

Both Limbaugh and Levi's mom. That'd be little Tripp's grandmother, off to the pokie.For attempted murder.

HOUSTON -- Seeking maximum penalties, the U.S. government filed a civil lawsuit against a BP PLC unit in Alaska for breaking federal laws during two major 2006 oil spills in Prudhoe Bay, the largest oilfield in the country.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, Alaska, said that BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. discharged 200,000 gallons of oil onto the North Slope during two different oil spills, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The move is a setback for the major Anglo-American energy company, which in recent years has worked to improve its reputation in the U.S. and relations with regulators. The 2006 spills in Alaska were preceded by a fatal explosion at BP's Texas City refinery. BP settled with the U.S. over that catastrophe, agreeing to pay millions and plead guilty to criminal charges.

This most recent complaint accuses BP of failing "to prepare and implement spill prevention" and take other measures mandated by the Clean Water Act. It also alleges that the company "improperly" removed asbestos-containing materials from its pipelines, violating the Clean Air Act, and didn't comply in a timely manner with a federal order requiring tests, inspection and repairs.

The government asked the court for civil penalties "up to the maximum amount authorized by law," and to order BP to "take all appropriate action to prevent spills in the future," the statement said.

Pipeline corrosion caused two spills in the BP-operated Prudhoe Bay oilfield in March and August 2006. The second spill led to a temporary shutdown of operations that jolted oil prices during a period of tight supply.

The state of Alaska also filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday over lost revenues tied to the oil spills.

In a complaint filed in state Superior Court in Anchorage, the state asked to collect penalty fees from BP for violating environmental laws, and to be compensated for lost state revenues tied to an estimated 35 million barrels of lost oil production. The state didn't include a dollar figure in its request.

In its complaint, the Alaska government argued that the two spills and subsequent emergency pipeline replacement work "significantly reduced oil production for more than two years."

BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said that the company had "no comment on the legal issues."

"We have taken significant steps to ensure that our operations are safe and reliable, and protect the environment," Mr. Rinehart said. "Those include building a new $500 million system of oil transit lines at Prudhoe Bay."

In November 2007, BP Alaska pleaded guilty to one count of criminal negligent discharge of oil in violation of the Clean Water Act, a misdemeanor that carried a $20 million payment.

But Scott West, the former head of the EPA criminal probe into the spills, said that the Justice Department hastened to shut down the investigation, settling for lower penalties than it could have obtained, the Wall Street Journal reported last November. In early 2007, the agency considered seeking penalties of up to $672 million and possible felony charges, according to the Journal report.

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“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.